netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6 1/2] be2net: Adding an option to use INTx instead of MSI-X

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Date:	Wed, 27 Oct 2010 10:20:35 +1100
From:	Michael Ellerman <michael@...erman.id.au>
To:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, somnath.kotur@...lex.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6 1/2] be2net: Adding an option to use INTx
 instead of MSI-X

On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 14:32 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 16:25 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > > From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
> > > Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 23:38:53 +0100

> > Ethtool would be nice, but only for network drivers. Is there a generic
> > solution, quirks are obviously not keeping people happy.
>  
> Since this is (normally) a property of the system, pci=nomsi is the
> generic solution.

Sort of, it's a big hammer. Did all these driver writers not know about
pci=nomsi or did they prefer to add a parameter to their driver for some
reason?

> [...]
> > Misc:
> >   sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:MODULE_PARM_DESC(enable_msi, "Enable Message Signaled Interrupt (MSI)");
> >   drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c:MODULE_PARM_DESC(mpt_msi_enable_spi, " Enable MSI Support for SPI \
> >   drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c:MODULE_PARM_DESC(mpt_msi_enable_fc, " Enable MSI Support for FC \
> >   drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c:MODULE_PARM_DESC(mpt_msi_enable_sas, " Enable MSI Support for SAS \
> >   drivers/net/myri10ge/myri10ge.c:MODULE_PARM_DESC(myri10ge_msi, "Enable Message Signalled Interrupts");
> [...]
> 
>   drivers/net/sfc/efx.c:MODULE_PARM_DESC(interrupt_mode,
>   drivers/net/sfc/efx.c-                 "Interrupt mode (0=>MSIX 1=>MSI 2=>legacy)");

Well spotted.

cheers



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